Deferential differentiation: What types of differentiation do students want?

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 279-299

  Kanevsky, Lannie ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

curriculum; differentiated curriculum; differentiated instruction; differentiation; gifted; instruction; learning preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053144376     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: 19349041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986211422098     Document Type: Article

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